REACH – digital treatment and prevention – David Moulaee Conradsson's research group

Our research focuses on creating the conditions for more equitable health through digital interventions and applications, from development to evaluation.

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Forskningsfokus

REACH - Researching and Evaulating Accessible digital Care for Health

Vår forskning syftar till att förbättra tillgången till vård och främja jämlik hälsa genom utveckling och utvärdering av digitala tjänster för behandling och prevention. Vi fokuserar på livsstilsinterventioner, såsom att främja fysisk aktivitet, med ett särskilt fokus på personer som lever med neurologiska sjukdomar eller skador.

Vi undersöker behovet av digitala interventioner hos personer med sjukdomar eller skador och deras anhöriga, liksom användning, tillgänglighet och upplevelsen av sådana tjänster. Dessa frågor studeras ur individuella och samhälleliga perspektiv, samtidigt som vi beaktar konsekvenserna för vårdens effektivitet och de hälsoekonomiska aspekterna av nya insatser.

Vi är starkt engagerade i sektorsöverskridande samverkan – mellan akademi, hälso- och sjukvård samt industri – och vårt arbete vilar på nära samarbeten med intressenter och representanter från patientgrupper för att säkerställa att digitala tjänster är relevanta, tillgängliga och ändamålsenliga.

Nyheter och aktiviteter

Seminarium om digital fysioterapi efter stroke, del 1

Seminarium om digital fysioterapi efter stroke, del 2

Publications

Selected publications

Funding

Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2026
    The overarching purpose is to improve secondary stroke prevention post stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) by increasing access to physical activity through telerehabilitation. This will be accomplished by building on a national collaboration within secondary stroke prevention and by testing a new telerehabilitation program (ENAbLE) developed in Australia.The ENAbLE program seeks to strengthen physical functioning and self-efficacy for exercise through home-based physical exercise and to equip the person with knowledge and confidence to sustain physical activity through behavior change techniques. The program will be accessible via a recent developed mobile application which will be used to reinforce autonomy and patient-therapist partnership.We will first evaluate if a digital version of the ENAbLE program could be delivered as intended through a pilot randomized controlled trial to determine the feasibility, end-users experiences and preliminary effects in people post stroke/TIA living in urban and rural regions of Sweden. We will thereafter perform a full-scale randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of the ENAbLE program on cardiovascular health, physical activity, function, well-being and its cost-effectiveness across Sweden.This project will address the unmet need of providing accessible and sustainable support for physical activity to people post stroke or TIA to decrease the risk of stroke recurrence through adherence to physical activity.
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2022 - 31 December 2025
    Support for physical activity is necessary to sustain health after stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). Still, rehabilitation services are not available to many of those who potentially would benefit due to barriers related to accessibility. While telerehabilitation is a promising strategy to support physical activity, there is a gap of knowledge regarding the implementation of technology that meet the needs of people post stroke or TIA in order to foster adherence and engagement in physical activity.Purpose is to improve health and wellbeing after stroke or TIA by increasing the access to physical activity through telerehabilitation. This will be accomplished by building on a national collaboration within secondary stroke prevention and through testing of an existing telerehabilitation program (ENAbLE) developed in Australia.The ENAbLE program seeks to strengthen physical functioning and self-efficacy for exercise through home-based physical exercise and to equip the person with knowledge and confidence to sustain physical activity through behavior change techniques. The program will be accessible via a recent developed mobile application which will be used to reinforce autonomy and patient-therapist partnership.We will first evaluate if the ENAbLE program can be delivered as intended through a pilot RCT to determine the feasibility, processes, end-users experiences and preliminary effects of the program in urban and rural regions of Sweden. We will thereafter initiate a full-scale RCT to investigate the effects of the ENAbLE program on risk factors for recurrent stroke, well-being and its cost-effectiveness across Sweden.The project will draw on socio-technical theory, depicting technologies as part of a dynamic system in order to explore its potential use in rehabilitation. The ENAbLE program offers a sustainable strategy to support exercise and physical activity which could benefit a large group of people with stroke and TIA regardless of where they live.
  • VINNOVA
    14 June 2021 - 30 April 2023

Staff and contact

Group leader

All members of the group

Other people connected to the group

  • Vive, Sara

Visiting address

Karolinska Institutet, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Zanderska Huset (Alfred Nobels Alle 23, Plan B3), Stockholm, Sweden

Postal address

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Physiotherapy 23100, Huddinge, SE-141 83, Sweden

Projekt

Mobilhälsa för fysisk aktivitet efter stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack – utveckling och genomförbarhet

Det övergripande syftet är att utveckla och testa genomförbarhet, acceptabilitet och preliminära effekter av en digital intervention som stödjer personer som haft stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack (TIA) i att vara fysiskt aktiva via en mobilapplikation. Utvecklingen sker i samarbete med personer som haft stroke eller TIA, fysioterapeuter, patientorganisationer och apputvecklare.

Mobilhälsa för fysisk aktivitet efter stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack – utveckling och genomförbarhet

”One size” passar ingen: digitalt precisionsstöd för fysisk aktivitet efter stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack – en multicenter adaptiv intervention

Denna multicenterstudie utvärderar effekten av en individanpassad digital intervention för att främja fysisk aktivitet och förbättra hälsan hos personer som haft stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack (TIA). Projektet undersöker även interventionens inverkan på sekundära komplikationer efter stroke och inkluderar en hälsoekonomisk analys för att vägleda framtida implementering. 

”One size” passar ingen: digitalt precisionsstöd för fysisk aktivitet efter stroke eller transitorisk ischemisk attack – en multicenter adaptiv intervention